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OPM Disability Retirement: The Semblance of Joy

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Happiness is but a fleeting moment; satisfaction is but the natural result of completion; but joy, that is a tincture derived from the depths of one’s soul. Perhaps there is an element of word-play; how we define levels of emotional states of being can depend upon the contextual usage of each conceptual construct, and in the end it is how we have described a given set of circumstances, based upon our personal experiential encounters and what sense of being we perceived at the time. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Sometimes, Even Squirrels Fall from the Sky

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Nature is not the penultimate paradigm of perfection. Think about it: the entire apparatus of evolutionary advancement is based upon the theory of accidental genetic alterations of incremental imperceptibility, over great expanses of time, as opposed to the disfavor […] Read More …

Getting Disability Retirement when Working for the Federal Government: The Sanctuary

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They are artificial pockets of safe havens; deliberately set aside, we hear of them as “wildlife refuges”, “bird sanctuaries”, and similar anomalies created for other species, but not our own. It is perhaps a testament to human beings that we care so much for the protection […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Recesses and Misguided Perspectives

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Plato’s recognition of how perceptual fallacies occur became an incentive for his philosophical quest to unravel the essence of a thing, in contrast to the accidental qualities which may present themselves in their visual appearance. But misjudgments concerning what […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Process of Decision-making

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It is both informative and interesting to observe various personalities in the thought-process of decision-making. Some will merely be silent and ponder for hours, days, and weeks (or longer), as if time alone with resolve an issue; others will be proactive and aggressively […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Continuation of Work

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There is often the question of whether, during the process of submitting a Federal Disability Retirement application with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, can/should one continue to work, and will such a status reflect negatively or adversely upon one’s Federal […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: August, Vacations, & OPM

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August is traditionally a time of vacations; a period of respite, before the onset of school and the busy schedules of parents. Government offices slow down, and with the coinciding impact of furloughs mandated through automatic imposition, delays in work and […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Wait-time Extended

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The time which takes from the assignment of a case number in Boyers, PA, to a decision rendered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C., has been extended. Recent articles regarding this issue have been slow to reveal the underpinnings of this […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Continuing Care

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A medical condition never has a simple solution; depending upon the nature, extent and severity of the condition, it must be “managed” and attended to throughout one’s life. Similarly, […] Read More …

Medical Disability Retirement under FERS: Continuing Working with the Medical Condition

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The capacity to endure an ongoing medical condition is a testament to the human body and spirit. That being said, however, there is a saturation point at which the Federal or Postal […] Read More …